Martin Luther rightly felt that the Church did not speak for the Lord. His 95 Thesis are mostly valid to the other half of the Ecumenical world today. And I mean no disrespect to you personally. Just presenting the counter point.
He did and Protestants would argue the joke is a guy sitting in a temple of gold pretending to speak for God while contradicting his predecessor as if God changed His mind on social issues at exactly the same time the pointy hat changed heads. Where in the holy scriptures does Christ foretell a single infallible governing body for all believers and bestow the authority of our Sovereign upon it?
It’s a valid point and I wouldn’t deny the debt all Christendom owes to the Catholic Church. But I don’t see any scriptural basis for all believers owing their loyalty to a single unified Roman institution for all time, regardless of theological disagreements and differing interpretations of the Word. Splintering was inevitable.
Martin Luther rightly felt that the Church did not speak for the Lord. His 95 Thesis are mostly valid to the other half of the Ecumenical world today. And I mean no disrespect to you personally. Just presenting the counter point.
He did and Protestants would argue the joke is a guy sitting in a temple of gold pretending to speak for God while contradicting his predecessor as if God changed His mind on social issues at exactly the same time the pointy hat changed heads. Where in the holy scriptures does Christ foretell a single infallible governing body for all believers and bestow the authority of our Sovereign upon it?
It’s a valid point and I wouldn’t deny the debt all Christendom owes to the Catholic Church. But I don’t see any scriptural basis for all believers owing their loyalty to a single unified Roman institution for all time, regardless of theological disagreements and differing interpretations of the Word. Splintering was inevitable.